As expected: Tsarnaevs discussed bombing Times Square, sources say

posted at 1:21 pm on April 25, 2013 by Allahpundit

The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect has told investigators that he and his brother discussed detonating the rest of their explosives in Times Square, senior law enforcement officials told NBC News on Thursday.

The surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, initially told investigators that they planned to go to New York to party after the Boston attack, one source said. The New York police commissioner also gave this account Wednesday.

Under subsequent questioning, the officials said, Tsarnaev said that the brothers had discussed a follow-up attack on Times Square.

The officials cautioned that the idea was undeveloped. One senior official described the plan as “aspirational at most.”

Not sure what “aspirational” means in this context. They had working bombs on them when the cops caught up to them. If they had left Boston sooner, the only thing stopping them from executing the plan was the NYPD’s ability to spot something fishy before the feds had publicly identified them. By “aspirational,” I think all NBC’s sources are saying is that the Tsarnaevs hadn’t fully committed to doing it, or doing it in Times Square specifically, yet. If they’d made it, though, I wonder if their M.O. would have been different. One of the small but important flaws in their marathon plan was putting the bombs on the ground, which kept the blast low and produced lots of severed legs but no severed heads. Would they have learned from that and placed the bombs higher next time to maximize fatalities? Another thing: When did Dzhokhar tell the cops that they were thinking about bombing Times Square? Sounds like new information, but according to the AP and Fox News, he supposedly clammed up after that magistrate gave him the Miranda warnings. Maybe he’s talking again.

While you mull that, enjoy mama Tsarnaev wondering if maybe the blood on the sidewalk at the marathon was paint. Apparently she saw a video to that effect, so you know there must be something to it. Rest assured, Tsarnaev sympathizers will try to spin this away as a grieving mother being unable to face painful truths about her sons, but I’d be more sympathetic to that explanation if I hadn’t read stuff like this:

The mother of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev knew as early as 2011 that her son had been radicalized and sent text messages to family in Russia suggesting he was willing to die for Islam, the FBI told lawmakers this week according to two officials with knowledge of the Capitol Hill briefing.

That’ll be spun away too as evidence only that Tamerlan was willing to go to Chechnya and fight the Russians, not that he was willing to blow up eight-year-olds here, but that’s goofy. Just this morning, the BBC reported that European intelligence is biting its fingernails over hundreds of native-born Muslims heading off to Syria to fight. What they learn there, ideologically and technologically, comes back home with them. If I had to bet, I’d bet that it was mama Tsarnaev’s texts that were intercepted by Russian intel and that spurred them to contact the FBI initially about Tamerlan in 2011. Why the feds didn’t take that more seriously, I still don’t understand. Neither do members of Congress.

Watch the second clip below too of the mother blaming “America” for taking her sons from her. America took them in, gave them an education, gave them welfare, gave her youngest son scholarship money, and yet here we are. “Why did they kill him? Why did they have to kill him? They got him alive. He was in their hands,” she said at her press conference. As a rebuttal to that, I’ll leave you with this:

Mike Doucette, 27, a chimney sweep who lives on the street, described seeing one brother shot and fall to the ground. He was still moving when the other brother went “screaming up the street” in the S.U.V.

“I yelled to the cops, ‘Watch out!’ ” Mr. Doucette said in an interview. But the car hit the wounded brother, he said, and “his body was tumbling underneath.”

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The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect has told investigators that he and his brother discussed detonating the rest of their explosives in Times Square, senior law enforcement officials told NBC News on Thursday.

Is anyone other than left-wing talking heads surprised?

I’ll take the 19 year old mass murdering sociopath at his word for this. Which is about the only thing he has said so far that I will do that for.

What else would Islamist terrorists plan to do upon arriving in NYC with a car filled with bombs? Especially considering there was an ongoing nationwide manhunt for them for bombing a crowd of bystanders in Boston a few days before.

While you mull that, enjoy mama Tsarnaev wondering if maybe the blood on the sidewalk at the marathon was paint.

OH! She caught on before the signs for hospitals, orphanages, and baby food factories were in place for background effect. Plan B, lets kill her other son.

Seriously, in parts of the world, predominantly populated by followers of the religion of peace, the facility where a bomber was being held would be overrun with a mob and the bomber would be dragged out on the streets and murdered. And she’s claiming this is all an elaborate frame job? She may have lived here but not much of America must have rubbed off.

In one sense, mama Tsarnaeva is laughable. But, in how many mosques all around the country today is the same story being told about a massive frame job on two innocent Muslim boys? Probably far more than CAIR would ever admit.

If I had to bet, I’d bet that it was mama Tsarnaev’s texts that were intercepted by Russian intel and that spurred them to contact the FBI initially about Tamerlan in 2011. Why the feds didn’t take that more seriously, I still don’t understand. Neither do members of Congress.

Spot on, AP, as most always.

The Obama admin. is derelict, entirely. Boston is a huge failure, all along, incl. what’s to follow…that the young one will not die, but might even go free some day.

The mother inspires no sympathy, just ridicule.

It’s incredibly sweet irony, molasses, that the brother ran over the virgin-aspiring thug.

Only one regret, that he survived, after so many resources. It’s one of the biggest failings in US history, all a waste.

Yes, Chris Matthews, Greasy Sharpton, Harris-Perry and Maddow need to get them on ASAP, so America can understand where it went wrong, and how it created these righteous haters of all things that are despicably American.

Indeed, and Obama sides with them. He/Holder sent the judge and the two lawyers, less than 24 hours into the FBI interrogation, to halt all. They didn’t want more news about their “brothers for Allah” to come out.

The mother of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev knew as early as 2011 that her son had been radicalized and sent text messages to family in Russia suggesting he was willing to die for Islam, the FBI told lawmakers this week according to two officials with knowledge of the Capitol Hill briefing.

Why, she sounds like an accomplice at this point. Time to treat her accordingly.

“When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane, not in all things, but in religious matters. I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic—for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it.”
– Mark Twain

Yes, b*tch. All that red was paint. That guys legs blown off? Just a figment of your imagination.
Why, this poison. Not poison, just drink it.
Mama needs to go to rape you with a sharp shank jail for shop lifting and giving birth to sh!t, and generally being an idiot.